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The eastern Slovakian city of Humenne will draw much attention from the country’s Volleyball family this weekend, as a double-gender tournament will take place there. The Slovakian U19 women’s and U20 men’s national teams will be trying to use the home-court advantage to secure participation in the Final Round of their respective European Championship. In…

More than 3,000 fans came together at ‘Bashkim Selishta-Petriti’ sports hall in Gjilan for the last match in the championship series of Kosovo women’s national league, thus setting all-time record of attendance for the sport in the Balkan country. KV Drita GJILAN eventually celebrated their third national league title in a row after edging KV…

Great season for Valentin Bratoev! In the most difficult moments he led his team to success. In never better shape will probably play the main role in the national team. Probably will continue his career in Brazil. Neftochimic 2010 Burgas won the back-to-back title in the Bulgarian men’s volleyball championship NVLB Super Liga 2017-2018 The…

Gaila Gonzalez scored 20 points in her last match of the regular series to surpass Lisvel Eve for the scoring title of the Women’s National District Volleyball Tournament. Gonzalez of second placed Cristo Rey (7-2) finished with 165 points to 159 for Eve of top placed Caribeñas (8-1). Prisilla Rivera of Caribeñas finished in third…

PAOK THESSALONIKI claimed on Saturday night the national cup title after winning the derby with Iraklis by 3-0 (25-18, 25-16, 25-18), thus securing their second crown in the competition after their maiden triumph in 2015. In the semi-finals, PAOK had recorded a 3-2 hard-fought victory (19-25, 25-22, 19-25, 25-22, 15-8) in their matchup with Olympiacos…

Two teams from the city of Brčko – ŽOK Bimal-Jedinstvo and OK Mladost – claimed this past weekend the championship title in the women’s and men’s national league of Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively. In the women’s competition, ŽOK Bimal-Jedinstvo retained the crown they had won in 2017 and they did so after winning two from…

Scoring 178 points in seven matches from a tournament of the highest level. It sounds pretty incredible, but it is a fact. And it was achieved by one Bulgarian player during the 2018 CEV U17 Volleyball European Championship – Women that was held from April 13 to 21 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The name of the…

Partizani are the winners of the 2018 Albanian women’s national league. They achieved a truly historic result, as their only national league title to date came 64 years ago! The ‘Reds’ ended the reign of Barleti Volley, which had lasted for four years. Partizani did not lose a single match since January and delivered a…

Volleyball is moving forward with great steps in Kosovo, and the women’s national championship series is registering impressive figures in terms of attendance. Some 2,200 spectators witnessed the first round of the finals televised nationwide by RTK, with the event organised on a very high level and the TV viewers enjoying also some behind-the-scenes footage…

The men’s gold medal match will be an all-Russian affair between Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Nikita Liamin and Russia’s Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Igor Velichko on the final day at the 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Xiamen Open. Stoyanovskiy/Velichko team up for the first time in 2018 and got off to a quick start with silver…